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    Tradition is losing its value; people want to experience new things rather than the same routine. In One Perfect Rose, Dorthy Parker changes the emotional feel the readers get from the beginning, then how it is towards the end of the poem. Emphasizing how she is tired of the traditional rose and hints her admirer in breaking away from the perfect rose. Her love story impacts how she wrote and definitely resembles in the poem. She also uses imagery and repetition to get her message clear on leaving

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    On that blistering day, the high school students giggled as they lay stretched-out—near the walls. Some of them were aggressively touching one another. I entered through the double-doors, and I signed-in while school security officers’ wand-down students. Then I located the main office, and I accepted my assignment papers titled: Chorus Concert I, (Period 6). The substitute teachers’ coordinator told me that I was assigned to two chorus classes. My instructions were to sit in the classroom

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    classic that defined a generation and even created an archetype in itself. But mainly because of the time it was created in it has many sexist undertones. This has attracted many feminist criticisms. One of the main criticism is the character of Dorothy she falls into many female cliches. Very little of her personality is shown, throughout the movie she is shown as scared, weak, and lossed. she is a constant “damsel in distress”. She is constantly shown as frightened and seeking the help of a man

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    features fictional characters such as dwarves, witches, giants, munchkins, and unicorns. Wizard of Oz is an original American fairy tale that follows the adventures of Dorothy Gale and her pet dog Toto, and begins the royal histories of the lands and peoples of Oz. The 1939 film version of The Wizard of Oz is considered a musical. Dorothy Gale lives on a farm in Kansas with her Auntie Em and Uncle Henry. An enormous tornado picks up her house and her dog up and then drops them in the good

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    when Dorothy emerges from her sepia-toned Kansas home to a technicolored Munchkinland. The two worlds are juxtaposed to emphasize the beginning of an adventure. While in Kansas, Dorothy’s world is black and white, to symbolize “Dorothy’s boredom and the land’s barrenness”. The use of colors in Oz and Munchkinland are vibrant and surreal, indicating that Dorothy is entering a dream within the recesses of her mind, which is played on at the end of the film when the characters wake Dorothy from

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    Eyes Wide Shut: A Look at Emily’s Oz Imagine for a moment what your favorite movie would look like if you couldn’t actually see it. Such an image may be challenging to picture, but not for blind, seven-year-old Emily, whose passionate, vivid descriptions of her favorite film, The Wizard of Oz, are the focus for a recent commercial to promote Comcast Xfinity’s new talking guide feature designed to help visually disabled people watch television. The ad, which premiered on Oscar night this past February

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    This melodious song was originally sung by Judy Garland as Dorothy in The Wizard of Oz but in 1993 Israel Kamakawiwo’ole remade the song to the melody of Over the Rainbow and What a Wonderful World. Kamakawiwo’ole’s voice coupled with new lyrics create a masterpiece of a song. Listening to the lyrics makes me believe that everything will turn out ok, and dreams will come true. In “Somewhere Over the Rainbow,” Kamakawiwo’ole wants the listener to know that better times are coming, you might just

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    is that the main character Dorothy gets swept away from her home by a twister. When she landed, she was in the Land of Oz. She later finds out that she can get home just by clicking the heels of the silver shoes together, which she got from the good witch of the north. The good witch of the north and the munchkins gave the shoes to Dorothy because her house fell on the wicked witch of the east, killing her. And when she died all her munchkins and slaves were free. Dorothy could have solved her problem

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    Heartland: A Portrait of Survival The film’s director, Erica Tremblay, lived in Joplin before her career as a documentary filmmaker. However, in both local news interviews and the description of the film on Amazon.com, Tremblay describes the film as the “inspirational story of a close-knit Ozark Mountain community that was struck by a historic deadly EF5 tornado May 22, 2011.” Several citizens who viewed the film and praised the work, later expressed dislike for the description. Anyone who has

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    The Wizard of Oz is a story that first introduces us to our main character, Dorothy Gale. She is a young, sweet girl who is accompanied on an adventure by her small companion, a dog named Toto. The majority of the story is set in the magical Land of Oz. Throughout the journey, we meet the friends that follow Dorothy through Oz, they include a scarecrow, a tin woodman, and a lion. There are also many characters with small parts such as Aunt Em, Uncle Henry, The Good Witch of the North, the Munchkins

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